krj@csri.toronto.edu (Ken Jackson) (06/08/88)
******************************************************************** | | | INTERNATIONAL MATRIX GROUP ( IMG ) | | -------------------------------------- | | The International Linear Algebra Community | | ------------------------------------------ | | | | E-mail Address: MAR23AA @ TECHNION (bitnet) | | | ==================================================================== 8 June 1988 ------------------------ IMG-NET Message No. 22 ------------------------ CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT: FROM: Dave Carlson SUBJECT: SIAG/LA Linear Algebra Prize -------------------------------------------------- =================================================================== The first SIAG/LA Linear Algebra Prize was presented to James Demmel for his paper "On Condition Numbers and the Distance to the Nearest Ill-Posed Problem", Nummer. Math. 51 (1987), 251-289. The Prize Plaque and Citation were presented to Demmel by SIAG/LA Chair Bob Ward at the Third SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra held in Madison, Wisconsin, May 23-26, 1988. After the ceremony, Demmel gave a stirring half-hour account of his work in the area of the prize paper. The winning paper was selected by a Prize Committee consisting of Dave Carlson (chair), Ake Bjorck, Gene Golub, Roger Horn, and Tom Kailath. Altogether there were 23 1986 and 1987 papers in applicable linear algebra nominated. Preliminary judging by 3 subcommittees narrowed the field to 6 finalist papers: Demmel's paper, together with T. Ando, Roger Horn and Charles Johnson, The singular values of a Hadamerd product: a basic inequality, Lin. Multilin. Alg. 21(1987), 345-366. Thomas Coleman and Alex Pothen, The null space problem I.Compexity, SIAM J. Alg. Disc. Meth. 7(1986), 527-537. Pamela Coxson, Loren Larson, and Hans Schneider, Monomial patterns in the sequence Akb, Lin. Alg. Appl. 94(1987), 89-101. Chris Paige, Computing the generalized singular value decomposition, SIAM J. Sci. Stat. Comput. 7(1986), 1126-1146. Ion Zaballa, Matrices with prescribed rows and invariant factors", Lin. Alg. Appl. 87(1987), 113-146. (Horn did not take part in the final judging). Future Linear Algebra Prizes will be awarded every two years by the SIAG/LA. =================================================================== Reposted by -- Kenneth R. Jackson, krj@csri.toronto.edu (csnet) Department of Computer Science, uunet!csri.toronto.edu!krj (uucp) University of Toronto, krj@csri.toronto.cdn (ean x.400) Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4 krj%csri.toronto.edu@relay.cs.net (arpa) (416) 978-7075 krj@csri.utoronto (bitnet)